The crasis and the demonstrative pronouns that, that, that

Doubts about the use of accents are common. To learn how to use the crasis in cases of demonstrative pronouns, that and that, check out this article!

the use of crasis is the reason for constant doubts in the Portuguese language. The crasis is applied in cases when the regent term requires the preposition The and the following term starts with the letter a, as that one, that one It is that one.

Check out more information and examples about the use of the crasis with the demonstrative pronouns.

That one, that one, that one with crasis

One of the instances of using the The prepositive is with the indirect transitive verbs that require this preposition before the complement. Check out the examples:

• I want to thankthose ones who informed me about the situation.
• I dedicatedthat one customer a lot of attention.
• I meanthat one what happened to my mom.
• I went back, then, that one april's dream inn!
• I attendedthat one film so many times that I know the lines.

Examples without the use of crasis

already the direct transitive verbs they do not need a preposition to join the complement of the sentence.

• I expect that one boy coming now.
• I did that one what did you say.
• it was exactly To this that people were referring to.

In this last example, the demonstrative pronoun that did not start with The, therefore, there is no need for crasis.

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